Events
Antigone
Hardly curbing its Dionysian power, the chorus enters the orchestra, i.e. the ritual dancing square. It is a collective entity and an impersonation of the nation’s soul. Dionysus is the leader, which results from the very nature of the ancient theatre. The god of debauchery, insanity and ecstatic surges is being contained by a system of strict grammatical and stylistic rules of language. Entrance of the chorus – parodos: raising a leg, striking a foot to confirm the uttered truth which thus becomes binding, freezing, and waiting as the dumb testimony of something happening. [...] more »
Grotowski – an attempt to retreat
This project is both exciting and risky: ‘Jerzy Grotowski – the biggest revolutionary of the 20th century theatre’. I am coming back to Grotowski after so many years partly as a result of my protest against what has been done to this person and partly because I feel I owe him something – as a human being but most of all as an artist. Having seen his Apocalypsis cum figuris in 1974, I decided I have to create theatre – with no possibility of retreat. Today I feel I need to confront his practical achievements, his thoughts related to the theatre, man and religion. [...] more »
Requiem
The script of Requiem is based on, among others, the fragments of Stanisław Wyspiański’s works which have not been staged before. These works have been subject to numerous reinterpretations resulting in deformation, new formatting and the loss of their primary context, and now they come back only in the form of loose fragments, looming in our collective imagination. We use these fragments to reconstruct the image of Wyspiański in the moment of his physical death and, at the same time, his birth in ‘the theatre of keepsakes’. However, our attention is not focused on Wyspiański himself but on his children. Helenka, Staś, Teodor and Mieciu become the main characters of the performance. They turn back time by eating bugs. They play with their father and call back their happiest moments […] more »
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